Visitors.
Cap. 2343
Application of Prisons Ordinance. (Cap. 234.)
Regulations.
Power of Governor to give directions.
Amendment of Mental Health Ordinance. (CAD. 136)
be disregarded in calculating the period for which he may be detained under the detention order or recall order, unless the Governor otherwise directs in a particular case.
9. (1) The Governor may appoint visitors for the purpose of visiting detention centres.
(2) A detention centre shall be visited by two visitors together at least once a month.
(3) Visitors shall exercise and perform the powers and dulics conferred on visiting justices and visiting committees under the Prisons Ordinance.
10. Subject to any regulations made under section 11 of this Ordinance, sections 9 to 12 inclusive, 17 to 21 inclusive and 24 of the Prisons Ordinance, and the Prisons Rules, shall apply to a detention centre and to the staff thereof and to detainees in like manner as if the detainees were prisoners and a detention centre were a prison, and such provisions shall be read with such verbal alterations and modifications not affecting their substance as are necessary to render the same applicable:
Provided that in the event of conflict between this Ordinance and the Prisons Ordinance, this Ordinance shall prevail.
11. The Governor in Council may make regulations for all or any of the following matters-
(a) the regulation and management of detention centres; (b) the treatment, employment, discipline, control and wel-
fare of persons detained in detention centres;
(c) forms required for the purposes of this Ordinance; and (d) generally for the better carrying out of the purposes of
this Ordinance.
12. (1) The Governor may give to the Commissioner such directions as he thinks fit with respect to the exercise or per- formance of bis powers, functions or duties under this Ordin- ance, either generally or in a particular case.
(2) The Commissioner shall, in the exercise or performance of his powers, functions and duties under this Ordinance, comply with any directions given by the Governor under subsection (1).
13. Section 52(5) of the Mental Health Ordinance is amended by deleting “a training centre or an addiction treatment centre” and substituting the following—
"a detention centre, a training centre or an addiction treatment centre.".
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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 15th day of March, 1972.
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